Dr Giles Yeo
Dr Giles Yeo decided to research the genetics of obesity after a PhD at the University of Cambridge where, in his own words, he ‘quickly realised that studying the genetics of Japanese puffer fish wasn’t going to pay the mortgage’. He would have been hard-pressed to find a more topical field of research. With more of us overweight and obese than not in the UK (the current figure stands at 63 per cent), the strain on our belts and on our health service has never been greater.
Despite the scale of the obesity crisis, however, Giles is sometimes met with frostiness when he reveals his specialism. He believes this hostility springs from
